Vision-Based Imitation Learning in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems: Varying Physiology and Skill
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Imitation learning enables a learner to improve its abilities by observing others. Most robotic imitation learning systems only learn from demonstrators that are similar physically and in terms of skill level. In order to employ imitation learning in a heterogeneous multi-agent environment, we must consider both differences in skill, and physical differences (physiology, size). This paper describes an approach to imitation learning from heterogeneous demonstrators, using global vision. It supports learning from physiologically different demonstrators (wheeled and legged, of various sizes), and self-adapts to demonstrators with varying levels of skill. The latter allows different parts of a task to be learned from different individuals (that is, worthwhile parts of a task can still be learned from a poorly-performing demonstrator). We assume the imitator has no initial knowledge of the observable effects of its own actions, and train a set of Hidden Markov Models to create an understanding of the imitator’s own abilities. We then use a combination of tracking sequences of primitives and predicting future primitives from existing combinations of primitives, using forward models to learn abstract behaviors from demonstrations. This approach is evaluated using a group of heterogeneous robots that have been previously used in RoboCup soccer competitions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".